1000+ images about LULU on Pinterest | Wedding coat, Lulu singer and British British broadcaster and journalist Cathy McGowan (left) and Scottish singer Lulu at the 'Ready Steady Go!' New Year party, January 1966. See More 1000+ images about :: Lulu :: on Pinterest | Stage name, The head and Wedding coat Forward British pop singer Lulu turns 66 today - she was born 11-3 in 1948. She's most identified with the song "To Sir with Love" from the film of the same name and with the title song to the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. See More Lulu - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS Soundtrack | Actress Born in Glasgow in 1948. As a teenager, she toured the northern clubs with her band, "the Luvvers". After her initial success with a cover of "Shout" reaching #7 in 1964, Lulu went on to establish herself as one of the biggest-selling British female singers of the 1960s.

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User Polls It's Lulu Herself - Host / Singer (1970-1973) 2016 Vinyl (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Cyclone (2016) ... (performer: "Here Comes The Night") 2015 Back in Time for Dinner (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - The 1990s (2015) ... (performer: "Relight My Fire" - uncredited) 2015 45 Years (performer: "To Sir with Love") 2013 Doctors (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Strange Romance (2013) ... (performer: "Shout" - uncredited) 2010 Him & Her (TV Series) (performer - 6 episodes) - The Argument (2010) ... (performer: "Boom Bang-a-Bang " - uncredited) - The Parents (2010) ... (performer: "Boom Bang-a-Bang" - uncredited) - The Football (2010) ...

(performer: "Boom Bang-a-Bang" - uncredited) - The Fancy Dress Party (2010) ... (performer: "Boom Bang-a-Bang" - uncredited) - The Birthday (2010) ... (performer: "Boom Bang-a-Bang" - uncredited) 2009 Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!! (performer: "The Word Is Love") 2009 Loose Women (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #13.206 (2009) ... (performer: "Mercy") 2009 Pirate Radio (performer: "To Sir with Love" (1967)) 2007-2008 The X Factor (TV Series) (performer - 4 episodes) - Episode #5.6 (2008) ... (performer: "Relight My Fire" - uncredited) - Episode #5.4 (2008) ... (performer: "Shout" - uncredited) - Auditions 1 (2008) ...

(performer: "Relight My Fire" - uncredited) - Auditions 6 (2007) ... (performer: "Relight My Fire" - uncredited) 2008 60/90 (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Party Songs (2007) ... (performer: "Shout") 2007 American Idol (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) 2007 The Home Song Stories (performer: "Let's Pretend") 2006 Duet Impossible (TV Special) (performer: "I Heard It Through The Grape Vine") 2006 Love and Other Disasters (performer: "Love Loves to Love Love") 2003 The Blues (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - Red, White and Blues (2003) ...

(performer: "Drown In My Own Tears") 2001 The Anniversary Party (performer: "Stealing My Love From Me") 2001 EastEnders (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) 2001 Top of the Pops: The True Story (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Relight My Fire") 2000 The Wedding Tackle (performer: "I'm a Tiger", "Boom Banga Bang") Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 4 episodes, 1971 - 2000) (writer - 1 episode, 2000) - Episode dated 17 March 2000 (2000) ... (performer: "Where the Poor Boys Dance") / (writer: "Where the Poor Boys Dance") 1999 Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

(performer: "Big Spender") 1999 Bleeder (performer: "Stone Cold Dead") 1998 Desert Blue ("To Sir with Love") 1997 Plump Fiction (performer: "To Sir With Love") 1997 This Life (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - He's Leaving Home (1997) ...

(performer: "Relight My Fire" - uncredited) 1997 Comic Relief (TV Special) (performer: "Who Do You Think You Are") 1996 Amanda (writer: "My Angel Is Here") 1996 Late Bloomers (performer: "Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)") 1995 Vacanze di Natale '95 (performer: "Relight My Fire") 1995 The Wharf Rat (TV Movie) (performer: "No Bridge I Wouldnt Cross", "Goodbye Baby & Amen") 1994 Lista Top 40 (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.1 (1994) ... (performer: "Relight My Fire") 1968 Lulu's Back in Town (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) - Episode #1.4 (1968) ...

(performer: "The Trolley Song", "The Boat That I Row", "Morning Dew", "Walk Right Back", "Suddenly You Love Me", "Lulu's Back in Town" - uncredited) - Episode #1.1 (1968) ... (performer: "You're Gonna Hear from Me", "Put on a Happy Face", "Thoroughly Modern Millie" - uncredited) - Sheriffs Are Bought, Not Made (1968) ... (performer: "Lulu's Back in Town", "Consider Yourself" - uncredited) 1967 Beat-Club (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.21 (1967) ... (performer: "The Boat That I Row") 1967 To Sir, with Love (performer: "To Sir, With Love") 1965 Shindig!

(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) Lulu:'I think the best is yet to come - even now' - Telegraph Lulu:'I think the best is yet to come - even now' The freshest face: Lulu today Elizabeth Grice 12:02AM GMT 04 Feb 2008 As pots of Lulu's new anti-wrinkle potion sell out in a flash, the dewy-faced singer tells Elizabeth Grice why she's perkier than ever Facts have to be faced. By some alchemy of creams or genes, Lulu looks younger now than she did when she was young. She knows it. The camera confirms it. Everybody comments on it. It used to annoy her when people like me gawped at her miraculous state of preservation when they should have been more interested in her latest album or tour. But now she's pushing 60 and "making her own secret skincare formulas available to everyone" there are no such qualms about being asked how she does it. "Bring it on!" she roars. Even in her pointy black suede high-heeled boots, Lulu is tiny, like a miniature rare breed, which in a way she is.

When startled, she can be noisy and excitable. She is singing expressively in the bathroom when I arrive. Related Articles Sexism is worse than it was in the 60s, says Lulu 01 Mar 2015 "That's what people tell me! It's the craziest thing!" she yelps when I state the obvious: she appears to have gone into some kind of reverse-ageing process. Her mother told her she shouldn't mind having a round face because round faces age well - and so, give or take a ton of moisturiser, it has proved. The over-made-up 1960s doughnut, who burst on to the pop scene with Shout, has become timelessly pretty. "Why don't you tell them what your secret is?" asked a savvy marketing friend. At the time, ever inventive, Lulu was buying borage oil capsules and mashing them into her favourite skin product of the moment. That would have been rather unsophisticated for the multimillion-pound cosmetics industry, so chemists helped her refine the idea and, three years on, Lulu is pouring her personal elixir of youth into a row of globe-shaped pots called, collectively, Time Bomb.

To judge from its reception on the online shopping channel QVC - where initial stocks sold out after just 15 minutes of patter from Lulu - it might be renamed Making a Bomb. In a gift to her publicity machine, a lorry carrying supplies of Glory Days Day Cream and Flashback Night Cream was raided at the Hopwood motorway service station in Worcestershire last July while the driver was asleep. The rest of his consignment was mysteriously intact. "Lulu's Secret Weapon Stolen", her PR company announced. Weird. She declaims from the militant product blurb about pulling in the heavy artillery and "fighting the good fight against ageing, all guns blazing", as if it were an original new lyric. "I love those phrases, don't you?" Lulu looks newly washed. "I was never a beauty as a teenager. It was difficult for me. I didn't look like Twiggy. I wasn't leggy or skinny. That's what made me take care of myself. I was motivated by the fact that I wanted to continue to sing for as long as possible. "You have to put a lotta work into every area of your life. I put a lotta work into my career.

I put a lotta work into the skin thing. You don't get results if you don't work. If you feel old, you will be old. If you feel down you have to say: 'Hello! What can I do to change this?' Don't feel old. Feel good now. Work at it." Lulu hasn't yet gone into motivational speaking but she reinvents herself so often that you can see where this may be heading. She's on a mission, she says, to prove to women that they've got good skin under all those dry, dead cells. They just need to slough them off with the exfoliating granules and magnesium oxide crystals in her Take-Off Time Cleansing Cream. "You can't put oil or moisturiser on an old bit of leather." Her perky pick-and-mix philosophy is all about survival. Not just hanging in there, but madly keeping up, trying new things, looking good enough to go on touring and never giving in to a duvet day. "People heard me sing Shout and they thought: 'She won't last long.' I thought: 'I'll show you.' I was determined. I learnt, I learnt. That's why I'm still here.

I feel I can go on till I'm 80, or longer, if I take care of myself, which I do. It's about your mindset; your approach." Lulu's mindset, and her accent, have been shaped as much in therapy-driven Winfreyesque America, which she visits a lot, as by the tough tenement where she was raised in Glasgow. Her mother, Betty, was often depressed, so responsibility for looking after her siblings fell to Lulu from an early age. Her father was an offal dresser at the Gallowgate meat market who beat his wife in drunken rages. But he could sing. "Maybe I heard my father singing when I was in my mother's womb and that was it," she says. "I have always been mad about music, mad about singing." Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie began performing with precocious self-confidence at the age of nine in the Lindella jive club, Glasgow, where she was talent-spotted by a rep from Columbia/EMI. She was only 15 when Shout (which she had been singing in Glasgow dance halls for two years) went to the top of the charts in 1963.

Protected by her agent, the mothering Marian Massey, and by her own single-mindedness, she was never a fully paid-up member of the experimental 1960s scene, even if she appeared to be part of it. "Others took drugs to push back their boundaries," she wrote in her 2002 autobiography I Don't Want to Fight, "but I wanted to stay within mine." She remembers a party at the country house of the Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, where, frozen with terror, she watched a joint being passed round. When it reached her, she passed it on hoping no one had noticed. But Kenny Everett, the Liverpool DJ, later made fun of the fact that Lulu was the one cleaning ashtrays and making tea while everyone else got stoned. The Daily Telegraph prepared her obituary way back in 1976 - a telling five paragraphs, which reported that she had the temperament of a prima donna and that the quality she most admired in people, she said, was self-discipline.

Perhaps this was not as glib as it sounded because, when I look at my notes of our conversation, there it is: "I've been disciplined and focused my whole life, and I am today." Two marriages, and four decades of all-round entertainment later, you have to give her full marks for consistency. When that obituary was written, Lulu was still only 28 but she'd done variety, had her own TV show, starred in the film To Sir With Love (with Sidney Poitier), performed as Peter Pan and belted her heart out in forgettable songs like I'm a Tiger and Boom Bang-a-Bang. Her Scottish accent was long since abandoned and her marriage to Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb (who died in 2003), was over. Like Lulu's father, Gibb was charming, but a drinker and a fantasist. "It wasn't a marriage - it was party planning," she said. Her second marriage, to the hairdresser John Frieda, lasted some 20 years and produced her only child, Jordan, now in his twenties.

She thinks the relationship started to unravel when she miscarried a much-wanted baby in 1988, though for a time she pretended all was well. "I was in denial about my marriage going wrong." After they split, Lulu picked herself up and in 1993 released a comeback single called Independence, which reached number one in the American dance chart. She went on the road again, took younger boyfriends, performed with younger singers. She teamed up with Take That for the hit Relight My Fire, then tastelessly revealed that with the young Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen, she found "the best sex I'd ever had. My God, he relit my fire!" Lulu's love affair with the dewy-cheeked present in which something wonderful is always about to happen ("I do think the best is yet to come - even now") makes her a disappointingly vague person to talk to. Perhaps she thinks that too many references to the past will dilute her message of self-improvement and the rejuvenating effects of hyaluronic acid and dermo-binding peptides. Maybe she is just being loyal. John Frieda, for instance, is "a great man and we had a great relationship".

She has a number of men friends but lives alone and on the question of a third marriage would "never say never". Jordan is "a great guy. We have a very good relationship." Elton John is like a brother. "He is a great being. He also lives for the moment. He wants to know what's happening now. He's not bored by things. He's vital. He is very special, very dear to me." Her own energy and curiosity are impressive. She does yoga three times a week, meditates, walks the dogs and took up running at 40 - until she discovered it was jarring her knees. Long before it became a religion, Lulu was eating organic food and getting in touch with her inner self. She met Gurumayi, leader of the Siddha Yoga Foundation. She had Botox for a while, then dropped it. Her next thing is going be an energetic dance routine, Dance Dance Revolution, performed at home to a video. On the rare occasions when she feels tired, she pushes herself further. Though at the end of last year's tour with Jools Holland, she did relax for a few hours with several episodes of Cranford.

Did it make her want to read Mrs Gaskell's book? "Yes!" And has she read it? "No!" She's busy with a book by Thomas L Friedman, the New York Times columnist. Lulu is in such a state of perpetual motion that her autobiography must already be wildly out of date. "There's a whole story that wasn't told," she says. "But I kinda move on. I'm not a person who lives in the past. That would be depressing." She has changed her name several times - Marie Lawrie, Lulu, Lulu Gibb, Lulu Frieda and now Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, her mother's pre?adoption name. My guess is it will not be her last. Exfoliating old personas like dead skin cells is all part of her anti-ageing regime. • Time Bomb is available only on QVC and at LULU Biography Page LULU - The Biography Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, on November 3rd, 1948, the eldest of a family of four, in Lennox Castle, Lennoxtown, Glasgow - the daughter of a local butcher. She started singing almost immediately.

She made her first public appearance singing at the tender age of 4 at a Coronation Party - "From then on, I used to go in for talent competitions on my own," she adds. At Whitehill School in Glasgow, she was always in trouble for singing during lessons. At the age of 14, Lulu joined a local group - The Gleneagles - and started playing club engagements in and around Glasgow and Edinburgh. Each Sunday evening, the group with Lulu in tow as lead singer, played at The Lindella Club - a Glasgow discotheque, for a pound a night each. On one particular cold Glaswegian evening at The Lindella, Lulu was discovered singing by Marion Massey, who later became her manager and mentor and who guided her to stardom. Says Lulu: "When I was fourteen, I was very lucky. I was discovered - to use a terrible term - by a person who was absolutely sincere. Since I was five, people had been coming up to me saying: 'Stick with me, baby, and I'll make you a star'. In fact, nobody ever did anything for me. Then Marion came along".

And Marion takes up the story: "She (Lulu) looked so peculiar that first time I saw her. Her hair was in curlers underneath a fur beret. She had a terrible cold, was very pale and wore three jumpers. But I was very intrigued by her. It wasn't her singing; there was something tremendously magnetic about this girl. I knew she had the makings of a great star." She was right and set about proving it. Marion Massey signed Lulu and her group to a management contract and took them to London to record. But first she decided the time was right to change her protégée's name, and came up with the perfect answer: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie became Lulu. The group's name changed, too, from The Gleneagles to The Luvvers. In actual fact, Columbia (EMI) turned down Lulu and The Luvvers, the first record company they approached for a deal, but no matter.

Within weeks, they were signed up by Decca and made their first single, 'Shout', a raw version of the old Isley Brothers US hit of 1959, which Lulu had enthused over when she heard Alex Harvey singing it several months before. Lulu's own handling of the song moved one eminent rock journalist to write: "It is still probably the best rock 'n' roll performance by a woman in the history of British pop." When it was released in the spring of 1964, it became a smash hit and launched Lulu on the road to stardom. 'Shout' went on to take the British Singles Chart by storm and finally reached No.7. What followed next, through 1964 and 1965, was an outstanding assault on the world's hit parades by the newly acclaimed singing star, with a succession of classic singles: 'Here Comes The Night', 'Leave A little Love' and 'Try To Understand' (all British Single Chart Hits). She consolidated her success with a string of top television and radio appearances, and concert engagements all over the country. It paid dividends, too.

By the end of 1965, she was voted 'Britain's Most Promising Newcomer In Showbusiness' by the highly influential rock newspaper Melody Maker. It was the first of many honours. 1966 proved a memorable year in Lulu's career, although it was the year that finally saw her parting company from her backing band The Luvvers. Besides a hectic round of TV and radio appearances in Britain and Europe, she also undertook major concert tours; with The Hollies to Poland - to become the first British girl singing star - ever to perform behind the Iron Curtain - followed by a lengthy British tour with Roy Orbison and The Walker Brothers. She also switched record labels, too, from Decca to Columbia - ironically the company that turned her down two years before - and joined forces with producer Mickie Most, whose stable at that time included The Animals, Donovan, and Herman's Hermits. Lulu also finished the year on another high note, when she starred in the pantomime 'Babes In The Wood' at the Wimbledon Theatre and won rave reviews from the press.

However, the undoubted highlight of that year came in the spring, when she signed to star in her first movie - playing the part of cheeky 'Barbara Pegg' - in 'To Sir With Love', alongside Sidney Poitier.She was great, too, and once again was acclaimed by the Press for her performance when the movie was released in April 1967, and later on went to break box-office records all over America. She completely justified the faith put into her by the film's writer, producer and director James Clavell, who said at the time: "This girl has a naturalness, a straightforward quality coupled with a really exciting personality, A very important movie quality indeed". He said it all. If 1966 proved a major turning point in Lulu's career, then the following year certainly consolidated all her success, and established a marvellous pattern. She enjoyed three major hit singles - 'The Boat That I Row', 'Let's Pretend' and 'Love Loves To Love Love' - and also signed for her first BBC Television series called 'Three Of A Kind' (with Mike Yarwood and Ray Fell).

In the summer, she embarked on a massive tour of America, appearing on such top-rating programmes as 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 'David Frost Show', 'Johnny Carson Show', and many many more. Back in Britain, she appeared in concert in London with the Monkees, then at the height of their outstanding careers, - and stopped the show. Then in November, she was chosen to appear in The Royal Variety Show at the celebrated London Palladium, one of the highest personal accolades in British showbusiness. That's not all. 'To Sir With Love' shot to the very top of the American Singles Chart to give Lulu a unique distinction in International showbusiness. She was the only non- American female singer- ever to have topped the US Singles Chart for five weeks, and at that time only one of five British female singers to have topped the chart. Lulu joined this elite band in 1967 when 'To Sir With Love' - the title song from her debut movie appearance - was released as a single and within weeks, it was sitting at the very pinnacle of the US Chart. The record stayed there for five weeks and by November 1967 had sold a million copies.

In all, the record-making single went on to sell nearly 4,000,000 copies worldwide. It was a remarkable feat for the lovely green-eyed singing star: it was the first time in recording history that a US hit by a British artist was never given a domestic release, even though it was a No1, but then, Lulu has been breaking records and making International showbusiness history ever since. Lulu's success Stateside was completed in 1968, when she was voted 'The Most Promising Female Vocalist Of The Year', after playing a series of barnstorming engagements, with appearances at the Coconut Grove in Hollywood, where 'Variety' headlined: 'Lulu's A Winner' and the Los Angeles Examiner called her 'a singing sensation', and Miami's Diplomat Hotel. Domestically, she completed two more television series for BBC TV - 'Lulu's Back In Town' and Happening To Lulu'; made her debut at Europe's premier nightspot, The Talk Of The Town, in London; and appeared in concert and cabaret engagements all over the country.

She also picked up a bevy of prestigious newspaper awards: 'Britain's Top Girl Singer', 'Best Dressed Girl', 'Miss Valentine' (an award she was to win again in 1969 and 1970), and 'Top TV Artiste', presented by the top pop music paper Disc, and she was voted 'The World's Top Female Singer Of The Year' by the renowned New Musical Express. There were hit records, too, with 'Me The Peaceful Heart', 'Boy' and 'I'm A Tiger' all high in the singles chart and Lulu was still only twenty. The turn of 1969 saw Lulu hitting the headlines once more when, on February 18th, she married Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees in a blaze of publicity and riotous crowd scenes outside the Buckinghamshire church where the ceremony took place. Unfortunately, the marriage was to last four years, before ending in divorce. Career-wise, however, she was at the height of her success and living up to her position as 'Britain's Top Girl Singer'.

For in March of that year, she clocked up another distinguished first, when she was chosen to represent Great Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest - and singing 'Boom Bang-A-Bang', walked off with joint first prize. It was a tremendous achievement - she was only the second British singer to capture the coveted prize. Lulu summed up her feelings in one word; "Fantastic". It was the right word, too, because within a matter of days 'Boom Bang-A-Bang' went to the top of the singles charts all over Europe, selling well through-out the world and gave Lulu one of her biggest chart success back here in Britain, when it finally reached No.2. If that wasn't enough for one year, the BBC also signed her for yet another television series. Internationally, too, 1969 proved highly productive with top television appearances in America and a further Stateside cabaret appearance at the noted Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, where Entertainment World summed up her performance by simply saying 'Dynamic Lulu'.

The US connection was completed some months later, when she recorded for the fist time in America, resulting in the release of a brand new album for Atco, produced by Gerry Wexler, called 'New Routes', and from which her last British single of the 60's - 'Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)' - was taken. The United States was still very much to the fore for our wee Scottish lassie as the 60's ebbed and flowed in to the 70's and she made regular trips across the Atlantic for TV and concerts appearances. In 1970, she embarked on a tremendous trans-American tour with Englebert Humperdink and also took time out from her heavy schedule to co-host television's 'Andy Williams Show' with singer Ray Stevens. At home in Britain, she notched up yet another BBC TV series and starred in the television 'special' "Cucumber Castle", which was later screened all over the world. Again she completed the year by picking up yet another hatful of top showbusiness accolades - 'Top Female Singer' and 'Best Dressed Female Star'.

The story continued very much on the same level throughout the 1970's with Lulu sitting very much at the top of her chosen tree of success, a super-talent and every inch the superstar - winning bouquets of applause from critics and audiences alike all over the world. It was never ending. Highlights of that outstanding and highly successful decade included tours of Britain, American, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East. Many more top-rating BBC TV series including 'It's Lulu' (in which she co-starred with Dudley Moore), 'Lulu's Party' and 'The Les Dawson Show', she shared top billing with the British comedian, a further show-stopping season at London's 'Talk Of The Town' and a triumphant return to Las Vegas to star at 'The Rivera Hotel'. She was also chosen as a subject on television's 'This Is Your Life' at age 23. There were more accolades, too - in 1972 she starred in the perennial 'Peter Pan' in the Christmas presentation of J.M.

Barrie's classic play, in Manchester, in which she broke all box office records which had stood for 60 years, and repeated the role - to high acclaim - at the London Palladium in 1975, the same year she was voted 'Best Groomed Female TV Personality', by the National Hairdresser's Federation. Then in 1974 - after a five-year absence from the UK Charts - she hit the jackpot once again with 'The Man Who Sold The World', written and produced by David Bowie. It proved not only to be a hit, but one of Lulu's biggest record successes, reaching No 3 in the chart. It was a welcome and triumphant return. A year later, Lulu was back with another hit with 'Take Your Mama For A Ride'. Since then Lulu has more than consolidated her exciting career and fulfilled all her early promise, with a string of International concert, cabaret and television appearances. However, the schedule was interrupted in 1976 when she married top London Hairdresser, John Frieda. Their son, Jordan, was born in June 1977.

During 1980, besides playing numerous guest television engagements, Lulu also made several appearances on ATV's rock 'n' roll show, 'Oh Boy', which proved so successful that a brand new series, 'Let's Rock', was virtually constructed around her immense talents. The 24-show series was screened in the autumn of that year all over America and throughout the rest of the world. To coincide with the series, Lulu recorded a new album - 'The Very Best Of Lulu' - featuring all of her hit singles of the 60's and 70's and a few new tracks. Now in her third decade as a major singing star and entertainer, the delightful Lulu has certainly become one of an elite band of international stars with a track record second to none. In the USA, she enjoyed more chart success with hit singles such as 'I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do), 'If I Were You' and the Grammy nominated track 'Who's Foolin' Who', and two exciting albums, 'Lulu' and 'Take Me To Your Heart Again', and she has appeared on all major American TV shows.

In Britain, she starred in two BBC TV Specials, 'Lulu' and 'The Vocal Touch', hosted her own series, 'Some You Win', and, made regular appearances on a wide range of shows and series, including 'Big Top Variety', 'The Bob Hope Classic', 'Bruce Forsyth Show', and many many more. At the beginning 0f 1987, she appeared as 'Pauline', Adrian Mole's mother, in the top-rating series, 'The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole', which was screened on the full ITV network; in the summer of 1988, during her starring season at the Bournemouth International Centre, she was featured as special guest star for the entire series of the TVS Networked show, 'Summertime Special'. Lulu also presented her own radio series for London's Capital Radio called 'Sunday Best', and in 1988, she hosted BBC Radio 2's 'Ken Bruce Show' for a short season.

During the 80's she also enjoyed great success on the West End stage and has appeared in several major shows: in the summer of 1983, she starred to great acclaim in the hit Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical, 'Song And Dance', at the Palace Theatre, and two years later scored another huge personal success in the role of 'Adelaide' in the award-winning National Theatre production of 'Guys And Dolls' at the Prince Of Wales Theatre. She returned to the London stage in May 1987 to star in the hit Broadway musical, 'The Mystery Of Edwin Drood' at the Savoy, followed in the autumn, by a starring appearance in another American Show, 'Peter Pan - The Musical', which was staged at the Cambridge Theatre for a short season. Another outstanding career highlight came in November 1986 when her first book, 'Lulu - Her Autobiography', was published by Granada Books. The following summer, a brand new version of her 1964 hit single, 'Shout', was released on Jive Records.

It proved another tremendous success, emulating the impact of the original record over twenty years before, and stormed into the British charts to peak at No.8. Lulu's musical achievements were duly recognised and honoured in October 1987 by the British Academy Of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, with the award of their Gold Badge Of Merit for her services to the British Music Industry. Following the earlier success of 'Peter Pan -The Musical' in the West End during the winter of 1987, Lulu recreated the title role once again a year later with a Christmas season at the Wimbledon Theatre as part of a short British Theatre tour which also took in the early months of 1989. In April, the Variety Club Of Great Britain honoured her with a tribute luncheon in London, to celebrate her twenty-five years in showbusiness. The luncheon, took place at The Café Royal, was later televised by the BBC. During the summer, she starred in a series of Sunday concert engagements at the Bournemouth International Centre, followed by an extensive British concert tour in her own exciting show - 'Lulu -Red Hot Tour'.

On television, she won critical acclaim for her portrayal of the character 'Gossamer Trouble' in 'Perfect Scoundrels', for TVS, screened on the full ITV network. Lulu also managed to complete a series of international engagements in America, Europe and Australia through this busy 1980's period. Well if you thought that by this time Lulu had done it all you'd be wrong. Lulu was to come into her own in the 1990's. Lulu took time out from television and started to concentrate on recording once again, it all came to fruition in 1993, when Lulu released her first single in years and immediately took the charts by storm yet again. 'Independence' was the single and reached No 11 in the singles chart, which was followed by the album of the same name, and received critical acclaim from the music press. The 'Independence' album was a mixture of disco pop with a flavour of classic soul sounds and R&B. The mix worked well and reaped rewards and gained the No.1 Dance Chart spot and entered the American Dance Chart. It was all happening.

The follow up single 'I'm Back For More', which Lulu duetted with soul legend Bobby Womack, and again hit the charts, more hits followed and then came the biggie. Lulu had started songwriting and one of the first songs that she had written was picked to be recorded by none other than Tina Turner. 'I Don't Wanna Fight' was an enormous success both for Tina and Lulu, it was a smash hit all over the world and was nominated for a Grammy. Lulu herself won acclaim for the song and was nominated in the Ivor Novello Awards as songwriter, and won a BMI award. 1993 ended on a really high note when Lulu was teamed up with the then teen sensation, Take That and recorded 'Relight My Fire', this was a pairing that seemed unlikely on paper but on record it worked. The result was Lulu's first UK No.1 Single. Times had never been busier for Lulu and this was only the beginning. During this time Lulu took time to appear on 'French & Saunders' and the award winning 'Absolutely Fabulous', plus a tour with Take That.

Hit singles followed, too, this time Lulu was recording her own songs, 'Goodbye Baby And Amen' and 'Every Woman Knows' kept Lulu in the UK Charts in 1994. Lulu as songwriter was also seeing her work recorded by other artists Wynonna, of The Judds, recorded a song and got Lulu a BMI Country Award. Other artists who recorded songs have been Dana Dawson and Kavana. Lulu then worked on her songwriting to produce an album of her own songs, still to be released, but in 1999 a taster was given with the hit single 'Hurt Me So Bad', a great song sung with great meaning and feeling, the lady was singing her own words about her own life and you knew it. During this time Lulu also recorded with Elton John, on his 'Aida' album. The song on this album was 'The Messenger' which truly shows off Lulu's vocal to its full potential and in her forth decade can still cut it with the rest of the chart contenders.

Lulu once again hit the charts with yet another of her own compositions "Where The Poor Boys Dance" saw her hit the Top 30, reaching No 24 in the UK chart, and giving her the distinction of being on Top Of The Pops in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and in the year 2000. Lulu also had a first in the summer of 2000, when she took to the stage at her fist ever festival, and it was back home in Scotland, when she played to new breed of fans at the annual Music Festival, 'T In The Park', and was rated in the press as 'One of the best performances of the festival' and one paper even said 'Lulu showed the young ones how it should be done'. Lulu was a hit, and she herself enjoyed the day.

On a personal level Lulu 's career was to take on a new aspect as she was then awarded the O.B.E., in June 2000, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for her contribution to the Entertainment Industry, and a further honour was to come in December 2000, when Lulu was given a Doctorate Of Music by The University Of Westminster. Lulu is in her fourth decade as a major international star and she has a new album of duets due to be released in May 2002. Billy T - 2001 Who is Lulu dating? Lulu boyfriend, husband has had an encounter with David Bowie (1974). She is rumoured to have hooked up with Jason Orange (1993). About Lulu is a 68 year old Scottish Vocalist. Born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie on 3rd November, 1948 in Lennox Castle, Lennoxtown, Glasgow, Scotland UK, she is famous for To Sir With Love in a career that spans 1964–present. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio.

Lulu is a member of the following lists: Scottish television actresses , Scottish film actresses and Musicians from East Dunbartonshire . Contribute Help us build our profile of Lulu! Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. Relationship Statistics Lulu Pics - Lulu Photo Gallery - 2017 - Magazine Pictorials. Movie Stills. Event Photos. Red Carpet Pictures 1 Profile Bio Text Born in Glasgow in 1948, as a teenager she toured the northern clubs with her band the Luvvers. After her initial success with a cover of "Shout" reaching #7 in 1964, Lulu went on to establish herself as one of the biggest-selling British female singers of the 1960s. She made her film début in To Sir, with Love (1967) starring Sidney Poitier and performed the title song, which went to No. 1 in the US, but was only released as a B-side in the UK with the A-side, "Let`s Pretend," making #11.

She was one of four joint winners of the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest with "Boom Bang-a-Bang." In 1969, she married The Bee Gees` Maurice Gibb, and moved more into family entertainment, building on the success of her self-titled BBC television show. After her divorce, she collaborated with David Bowie on the song "The Man Who Sold the World," which reached #3 in the UK charts, and sang the title theme to the James Bond feature The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), both in 1974. After marriage to celebrity hairdresser John Frieda, with whom she had one son, Jordan, Lulu`s career moved more into occasional adverts and pantomimes.

The 1990s saw her divorce again, and in 1993, she released the hit album "Independence." Along with her brother, she also penned the song, "I Don`t Wanna Fight," which was performed by Tina Turner on the soundtrack to What`s Love Got to Do with It (1993), and aged 44, she finally topped the UK charts with British boyband Take That with a cover of "Relight My Fire." She went on to contribute to the soundtrack of the Tim Rice/Elton John musical "Aida" in 1999, front her own short-lived prime-time UK lottery show on BBC TV, "Red Alert with the National Lottery" (1999), and starred in the film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999). In 2002, she released an album of duets entitled "Together," featuring the likes of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Cliff Richard, Sting, and Ronan Keating, along with a best-selling autobiography. In 2003, she released her "Greatest Hits" album, which débuted at #35 in the UK charts.

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Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jul 15, 2011 Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, 3 November 1948, Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, which was then in Stirlingshire), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, actress, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day. She is famous for the title song from the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, in North America for the film theme "To Sir, with Love" and in the UK for her first hit "Shout" and her Eurovision Song Contest winning entry "Boom Bang-a-Bang". Lulu grew up in Dennistoun, Glasgow, where she attended Thomson Street Primary School and Onslow Drive Junior School. She lived in Gallowgate for a while before moving to Garfield Street.

At the age of 12 or 13 she and her manager approached a band called the Bellrocks seeking stage experience as a singer. She appeared with them every Saturday night: Alex Thomson, the group's bass player, has reported that even then her voice was unbelievable. Under the wing of Marion Massey, she was signed to Decca Records and at the age of fifteen her version of The Isley Brothers' "Shout", delivered in a raucous but mature voice, reached the UK charts. Massey guided her career for more than 25 years, for most of which time they were partners in business. Massey's husband, Mark, wrote many of Lulu's hits. Her backing group, The Luvvers, was quickly dropped. In 1966 Lulu toured Poland with The Hollies, the first British female singer to appear live behind the Iron Curtain. In the same year she recorded two German language tracks, "Wenn du da bist" and "So fing es an" for the Decca Germany label. All of Lulu's Decca recordings were made available in 2009 on a 2-CD entitled Shout!, issued on RPM Records.

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Question: Which pop singer's maiden name was Lawrie and is now Kennedy Cairns?
Answer: Lulu